Four Iris capabilities are generally available and two are in beta, as CEO Rowan Trollope pushes Redis from live app data into agent routing, memory and messaging.
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Primary source: PR Newswire Business Technology
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Redis is using its installed base in live application data to claim the routing, memory and messaging layer for production agents, putting it in direct competition with other data platforms racing to own that stack.
Redis, co-founded by Ofer Bengal and Yiftach Shoolman, expanded Redis Iris on November 4th, 2026, with CEO Rowan Trollope announcing six capabilities for AI agents: Intent Router, Agent Playbooks, Agent Memory, Context Gateway, Lens and Agent Mesh. Redis announced the expansion in a release on PR Newswire, describing the tools as customizable pieces that teams can use…
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